Hands-on Learning at Reggio Emilia Workshop

This workshop gave Early Childhood students an opportunity to participate in some Reggio-based activities that would be developmentally appropriate for young children. By doing the activities themselves, the students will remember this philosophy better.

Early Childhood students from EDC 183 participated in a Reggio Emilia Workshop. ReggioEmilia is an educational philosophy. The basis for it is looking at children as individuals and allowing children to explore personal interests and opportunities. Teachers create activities and experiences that use all of the children’s senses. There is special attention paid to incorporating the arts into children’s learning. Creative expression is an important part of the Reggio philosophy. Teachers create an intentionally prepared environment so children can move at their own individual paces exploring what interests them individually. In the true ReggioEmilia classroom there is an artist-in-residence as well as a teacher.

This short workshop gave students an opportunity to participate in some Reggio-based activities that would be developmentally appropriate for young children. By doing the activities themselves, the students will remember this philosophy better. They are also learning that teachers can incorporate Reggio-inspired activities into their early childhood classrooms without formal ReggioEmilia training and without an artist-in-residence.

Story published on March 08, 2018

Last modified on Mar. 8th at 2:57pm by Virginia Blandford.

Hands on activities help reinforce the ideas of the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy for Early Childhood students in EDC 183.